Wolfgang Feierbach, Altenstadt-Hessen, Germany, 1970
OfHouses guest curated by Adam Štěch : “Designer, inventor and engineer Wolfgang Feierbach dedicated his entire
life to the development of plastics and their use in design and
architecture. His brand FG Design was founded in the mid 1960s in the
small provincial town Altenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. At
the same time, he began to produce plastic furniture in contemporary
organic pop-art style and began to develop a system for the construction
of plastic prefabricated houses. His dream to develop
industrially-manufactured homes ended up with only two examples realized
for him. The first of these has plastic modules forming the facades of
the first level, floating above the masonry constructed ground floor. It
is now used as offices for the FG brand. In the second, more complex
home, Wolfgang Feierbach lives with his wife until today. The interior
surprises with the diverse and rich decorations combining Feierbach’s
furniture from the 1960s with his later creations, all with bold
postmodern aesthetics.” (Photos 1-7 © Adam Štěch, Wolfgang Feirbach / Fiberglass Design + Marketing.)
